Austin/Desmond Fine Art Aspects of Post-War British Art

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1 Austin/Desmond Fine Art Aspects of Post-War British Art

2 Aspects of Post-War British Art ROBERT ADAMS LYNN CHADWICK HAROLD COHEN ALAN DAVIE FRANCIS DAVISON TERRY FROST BARBARA HEPWORTH ANTHONY HILL ROGER HILTON HARRY HOODLESS JOHN LATHAM ALEXANDER MACKENZIE MARY MARTIN HENRY MOORE JOHN NASH BEN NICHOLSON JOHN PIPER MARY POTTER BRIDGET RILEY PETER SEDGLEY GRAHAM SUTHERLAND JOE TILSON JOHN TUNNARD KEITH VAUGHAN Exhibition Dates 23rd November 16th December 2011

3 HARRY HOODLESS Bench Composition, 1937 Tempera on board Signed and dated 'HOODLESS 37' (centre left); further signed and dated (verso) 55.5 x 46.5 cm JOHN NASH The View From the Rose Garden, c.1928 Oil on canvas 33.5 x 43.5 cm Prov: Roland Blythe Esq. Exh: Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, Society of Arts Exhibition, 1954

4 GRAHAM SUTHERLAND Welsh Hills, 1940 Watercolour, charcoal, colour chalk and wax resist 20.6 x 19 cm Signed with initials and dated 1940 Prov: Arthur Jeffress, London, where acquired by Wilfrid A. Evill, December 1955, by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost in 1963 BARBARA HEPWORTH Untitled, 1941 Mixed media on paper 23 x 30 cm Signed lower right; signed, titled and dated verso Prov: Private Collection, Hong Kong Exh: London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Pictures, Drawings, Water Colours and Sculpture, April - May 1961, (part III- section 2) cat. no.28 Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition, June - August 1965, cat. no.265

5 JOHN TUNNARD Nemesis, 1946 Gouache, watercolour and ink on paper 36 x 55 cm Signed and dated John Tunnard 46,W.6. Handwritten artist s label verso: Nemesis,W.6, John Tunnard, X6013. Signed on sheet verso Prov: Lefevre Gallery, London Dalzell Hatfield Gallery, Los Angeles KEITH VAUGHAN Standing Figure, 1948 Gouache, wax crayon and black chalk on paper laid on board 72 x 55.5 cm Signed and dated Vaughan/48 lower right Prov: Private Collection, Salt Lake City Ref: Alan Peat/BrianWhitton, John Tunnard: His Life and Work, Cambridge University Press, 1997, No.501

6 PRUNELLA CLOUGH Cabbage Plant, 1949 Oil on canvas 42.9 x 53.6 cm Signed lower right; dated Dec 1949 on the canvas verso BARBARA HEPWORTH Vertical Figures: Red and Yellow, July 1953 Oil and gesso on board 23 x 28.5 cm Signed and dated upper left Prov: Redfern Gallery, London Private Collection, Hong Kong

7 LYNN CHADWICK Beast, c.1955 Welded iron H. 21 cm Prov: Acquired directly from the artist Private collection Fine Arts Society, London ROBERT ADAMS Rectangular Bronze Form 1, 1953 Bronze with brown patina. Edition of x 10.8 x 3.5 cm Stamped A with four dots on the underside. Prov: The Collection of Professor and Mrs. George Heard Hamilton Exh: Lit: Gimpel Fils, Robert Adams, 1953, no.12 Alastair Grieve, The Sculpture of Robert Adams, Lund Humphries, London, in association with The Henry Moore Foundation, 1992, no.156 (Opus 14)

8 BEN NICHOLSON The Lizard, Cornwall, 1954 Pencil and gouache on paper 19 x 30.5 cm Signed and inscribed Aug (Lizard)/ BEN NICHOLSON on the backboard Prov: R. Doetsch-Benziger, Basel Exh: Musée National D Art Moderne, Ben Nicholson, Paris,(British Council Exhibition),1955, No.85; travelled to: Palais Des Beaus-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels; Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1955 ROGER HILTON Composition, 1952 Oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm Signed and dated Hilton 52 verso Prov: Peter Rainsford Esq. Exh: Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Aspects of Modern British and Irish Painting, London, 1997, illus. p.10 Lit: Herbert Reid, Ben Nicholson: work since 1947 (volume II), Lund Humphries, London, 1956, No.117, illus.

9 TERRY FROST Mars Image, 1956 Oil on board x 19 cm Signed and dated verso, inscribed for my friend Mr. Snow Prov: Michael Snow

10 JOHN LATHAM Portrait of Mrs James Catney, 1957 Oil on board 63.5 x 49.5 cm Signed, titled and inscribed on an exhibition label on the reverse ALEXANDER MACKENZIE Painting (Winter), 1958 Oil on board 41 x 61 cm Signed, titled and dated verso Inscribed 'Meadow Studio Newlyn' verso Exh: Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, 1957, unnumbered catalogue. Prov: Gordon Hepworth Fine Art, Exeter Waddington Galleries, London

11 ALAN DAVIE Untitled, 1959 Oil on paper 42 x 53.3 cm Prov: Gimpel Fils

12 ROGER HILTON Untitled, 1959 Oil on board 23 x 30 cm Inscribed verso, and dated 1959 on the backboard Prov: Exh: Acquired directly from the artist by Denis Mitchell & thence by descent to present owner St Ives, Penwith Society of Arts, Summer Exhibition, 1959 (details untraced) JOE TILSON Wooden Relief, 1960 Mixed media on wood 76 x 30 cm Signed and inscribed verso "WOODEN RELIEF " JOE TILSON 9" x 27 1/2 " Prov: New London Gallery, London

13 JOHN PIPER Llanddewin-Vessica and Flag, 1962 Oil on canvas, laid on board 37 x 49 cm Signed Inscribed and dated verso Prov: Marlborough Fine Art, London

14 MARY POTTER South African Violet, 1963 Oil on canvas Titled on the stretcher verso 81.4 x 76.2 cm

15 ROBERT ADAMS Maquette for a Screen, 1964 Steel 31.8 x 11.9 cm Prov: Gimpel Fils, London Estate of the artist Exh: Lit: Gimpel Fils, Robert Adams, London, 2009 Alastair Grieve, The Sculpture of Robert Adams, Lund Humphries, London, in association with The Henry Moore Foundation, 1992, p.214, no.467 HAROLD COHEN King, 1964 Oil on canvas x cm Signed, titled, dated March 64 and inscribed London on the reverse Prov: Robert Fraser Gallery, London,,July 1966 Exh: Belgrado, Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, 1971 Ljubljana, Moderna Galerija, 1971 Tilburg, Kultureel Centrum, 1979

16 PETER SEDGLEY b.1930 Trace No.8,Viridian, 1964 PVA on board 160 x 160 cm Prov: Peter Porter Esq, London Exh: McRoberts and Tunnard, Peter Sedgley, London, 1964

17 MARY MARTIN Perspex Group on Dark Blue (C), 1968 Perspex on wood 61 x 61 x 20.3 cm Prov: Artist s Family Annely Juda Fine Art, London Exh: Tate Gallery,Mary Martin, London, 1984, No. 47, illus. p.42 Annely Juda Fine Art, Kenneth and Mary Martin, London, 1987, No.30, illus. in colour p.42 Josef Albers Museum, Kenneth and Mary Martin, Bottrop, 1989, No.26, illus. in colour Galerie Renée Ziegler,Mary Martin: Reliefs , Kenneth Martin: Skulpturen und Gouachen , 1990 Huddersfield Art Gallery,Mary Martin:The aim is to achieve simplicity, 2004, Illus. p.73 catalogue,travelled to: Kettle syard, Cambridge, 2005;Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, 2005; Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, 2005

18 MARY MARTIN Perspex Group on Cream (B), 1968 Perspex on wood Signed, titled and dated on verso 61 x 61 x 24.8 cm Prov: Artist Artist s Estate Annely Juda Fine Art, London Exh: Annely Juda Fine Art, Kenneth and Mary Martin, London, 11 September - 31 October 1987, cat. no.30, illus. in colour p.47 Josef Albers Museum, Kenneth and Mary Martin, Bottrop, 5 March - 16 April 1989, cat no. 25, illus in colour Galerie Renée Ziegler Mary Martin Reliefs , Kenneth Martin, Skulpturen und Gouachen , Zurich, 9 February 10 March 1990, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Mary Martin: The Aim is to Achieve Simplicity, 16 October 18 December 2004 Travelled to: Kettle s Yard, Cambridge, 8 January 27 February 2005 Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, 12 March 8 May 2005 Russell-Cotes, Bournemouth, 25 June 11 September 2005 Illustrated in catalogue page 67

19 ANTHONY HILL Relief Construction, 1969 Perspex and aluminium construction 61 x 61 cm Signed with monogram and dated 69 on the reverse Prov: Kasmin Ltd., London Bachofen Von Echt Collection

20 HENRY MOORE Reclining figure: small head (9/9) Dark patinated bronze, mounted on a stone base H. 6 cm; L. 14 cm Prov: Private collection, Sweden Lit: Alan Bowness, Henry Moore. Complete Sculpture, vol. 6 (sculpture ), 1988, cat no 794, reproduced on p 38 BRIDGET RILEY Tawny Reds and Pinks with Green Contrasts, 1985 Gouache on paper 27 x 28.5 cm Signed, titled and dated Prov: Contemporary Art Society Market, London.

21 FRANCIS DAVISON Ochre Field, 1983 Paper collage 17.7 x 20.3 cm FRANCIS DAVISON Squares and Oblongs, 1983 Paper collage 15.2 x 15.2 cm

22 FRANCIS DAVISON White, Grey & Ochre, 1983 Paper collage 20.3 x 21.5 cm FRANCIS DAVISON Sat 25 11am Paper collage 16.5 x 21.5 cm